Spotlight on the Caribbean

Historians such as myself have cause to rejoice, if recent American political rhetoric is anything to go by. History, that heretofore scantily-funded discipline of the humanities known (along with English and ...

New article by Jessica Vance Roitman (KITLV) and Cátia Antunes, 'A war of words; Sephardi merchants, (inter)national incidents, and litigation in the Dutch Republic, 1580–1640', in the journal 'Jewish Culture and...

The Cuban Editorial José Martí published a Spanish-language edition of Het paradijs overzee (Bert Bakker, 1997 and KITLV Press, 20115) by Gert Oostindie, based on the English edition Paradise overseas (Macmillan...

‘Mi no ta Charlie’ (I am not Charlie) in four different languages on the front page of Bon Siman, a weekly newspaper in Bonaire. A cover statement like this might be somewhat unexpected for a local paper?...

President Obama’s announcement about the lifting of the Cuban embargo /bloqueo will have great economic consequences for the entire Caribbean. Cuba’s possible membership in CARICOM might breathe new life ...

This special edition of the Journal of Caribbean History is in honour of University of the West Indies (UWI) Emerita Professor of History, Bridget Brereton. Guest editor is Brian L. Moore. Authors of this special issue are Carl...